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The Sports Junkies

Brendan Banfield Trial Reaches A Verdict

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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From 02/03 Hour 2: The Sports Junkies react to Brendan Banfield's guilty verdict.

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0:00.0

So it's been nearly three years since Jason first brought up this sensational murder that happened in Northern Virginia.

0:11.4

Herndon.

0:12.1

And it came to a close yesterday as the jury convicted Brendan Banfield of aggravated murder in his wife's and a stranger's death.

0:24.7

Joseph Ryan, who was killed alongside his wife.

0:29.1

Jury convicted him Monday of two counts of aggravated murder, firearm using a felony and child endangerment,

0:34.7

facing a life without parole now at his May 8th sentencing.

0:39.0

I saw, I tuned in, like, just like right after they had read the verdict, and he was still

0:46.0

there and kind of talking to his attorney before they exited.

0:48.8

Yeah.

0:49.2

And he didn't look too, he didn't look too happy.

0:52.0

Now, he didn't look distraught either, but he didn't look too happy. I always go by the reaction after the verdict is red. Mm-hmm. I mean, there was just, there was no reaction. There was no emotion. There was just no emotion. Right. If you didn't do it, I just feel like your natural reaction would be to scream. I can't believe I didn't do this.

1:11.1

Right.

1:11.4

There was no reaction.

1:12.4

And also explaining.

1:13.1

He was just, for me, he, you couldn't believe his story.

1:18.3

Yeah.

1:19.2

Explain to the audience, because we were talking about during everybody, again, just quickly, what happened.

1:24.7

And then the final detail with the nanny, I thought the nanny was just kind of there along for the ride, maybe in the planning and everything.

1:30.9

You're saying she actually fired off a shot.

1:34.1

She fired off the kill shot, allegedly, the last one, right?

1:38.5

Explain to people what the theory is of what happened.

1:43.0

Well, her story or his story i don't know what you think happened

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